CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8] — Page 389

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Lordship that upon being called upon to give the usual security for discharge of his duties as Captain Superintendent of Police, in the form which accompanied Your Lordship's Circular despatch of the 10th October of last year, Mr May objected to the words "or he shall be accountable to any such Government or Department or officer as aforesaid", on the grounds that the responsibility imposed thereby is too vague, and I have therefore to request instructions from Your Lordship as to whether Mr. May's objection can be entertained.

In the meantime, I have allowed Mr. May to give security in the form with the words in question provisionally deleted, understanding that should Your Lordship's instructions be received, ...


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Lordship that upon being called upon to give the usual security for discharge of his duties as Captain Superintendent of Police, in the form which accompanied Your Lordship's Circular despatch of the 10th October of last year, Mr May objected to the words "or he shall be accountable to any such Government or Department or officer as aforesaid", on the grounds that the responsibility imposed thereby is too vague, and I have therefore to request instructions from Your Lordship as to whether Mr. May's objection can be entertained. In the meantime, I have allowed Mr. May to give security in the form with the words in question provisionally deleted, understanding that should Your Lordship's instructions be received, ... Page 334 The text has been corrected and formatted according to the given rules. The original text was fragmented and had several OCR errors, which have been addressed in the output. The output is in HTML format using `` for paragraphs. The page numbering information is preserved as per the instructions. The text has been reordered and rejoined to form coherent sentences, and spelling errors have been corrected. The formatting is done using HTML, and no markdown or code fences are included.
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